Henry Morrill and Susanna Folsom

Husband

Dea. Henry Morrill

Born: 14 AUG 1717 at Stratham, N.H.
Died: 09 OCT 1799^[1] at Hawke, N.H.
Will: 10 FEB 1792^[2] at Hawke, N.H.
Married: 30 JAN 1740^[3] at Kingston, N.H.
Father: Jacob Morrill
Mother: Mary Webster
Also m.: (2) Ann Tuxbury

The will of Henry Morrill mentions son Nathaniel as executor, daughter Apphia, Miriam, Sarah, and wife. Also mentions three grandchildren Susannah Sweat, Mary Nichols, and Henry M. Blake.

In 1754, Henry Morrill and Peter Bowen were arrested for the murder of two Indians, Sabattis and Plausawa. These two Indians were believed to have kidnapped two slaves from settlers near Canterbury, and sold one to a French trader while the other escaped. The Indians later returned to the area and continued trading with the local settlers as if nothing had happened, enraging most of the inhabitants. Morrill and Bowen were found to have met up with the Indians, given them a gallon of rum, and afterwards took the opportunity to follow them into the woods where they were murdered. Henry Morrill and Peter Bowen were later arrested and jailed in Portsmouth by the English authorities. Their fellow settlers did not see the justice in this, however, and at least a hundred of them went to Portsmouth, broke into the jail, and set them free. After a failed attempt to arrest the leader of the riotous settlers, various gifts were presented to appease the families of the murdered Indians, and the matter was dropped. ^[4]

Wife

Susanna Folsom

Born: 1721^[5] at Stratham, N.H.
Died: 17 NOV 1778^[6] at Hawke, N.H.

Children

Mary Morrill1742

Born: 24 MAY 1742^[7] · Kingston, N.H.

Susannah Morrill1744 – 1827

Born: 10 APR 1744^[8] · Kingston, N.H.
Died: 29 SEP 1827
Married: Timothy Blake — m. in Hawke, N.H., 22 December 1763^[9]
Timothy b. in Danville, Vt., 14 July 1741; d. in Strafford, Vt., 25 July 1821.

Miriam Morrill1746 – 1754

Born: 14 JUL 1746^[10] · Kingston, N.H.
Died: JUL 1754^[11] · Kingston, N.H.

Henry Morrill1749 – 1767

Born: 22 APR 1749^[12] · Kingston, N.H.
Died: 20 JUN 1767 · Hawke, N.H.

Apphia Morrill1752

Born: 22 JUN 1752^[13] · Kingston, N.H.
Married: Nehemiah Sleeper — m. in Hawke, N.H., 06 December 1770^[14]

Miriam Morrill1755 – 1851

Born: 17 MAY 1755^[15] · Kingston, N.H.
Died: 28 MAR 1851^[16] · Gilford, N.H.
Married: Simeon Hoyt — m. in Hawke, N.H., 23 December 1777^[17]
Simeon b. in Kingston, N.H., 17 March 1757; d. 09 April 1824.

Sarah Morrill1757

Born: 28 SEP 1757^[18] · Kingston, N.H.
Married: Noah Weeks — m. in Gilmanton, N.H., 12 March 1793

Nathaniel Morrill1762 – 1844

Born

01 NOV 1762^[19] · Hawke, N.H.

Died

20 JAN 1844^[20] · Hill, N.H.

Married

(1) Elizabeth Eastman family page →

(2) Sally Johnson — m. in Franklin, N.H., 24 May 1842^[21]
Sally b. ca. 1791^[22]; m. (2) in Sanbornton, N.H., 14 December 1815 to Eliphalet Flanders.

Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (New York: Grafton Press, 1931), 23.
Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (New York: Grafton Press, 1931), 23.
Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (New York: Grafton Press, 1931), 23.
John J. Dearborn, The history of Salisbury, New Hampshire (Manchester, N.H.: Printed by W.E. Moore, 1890), 227-237.
Date inferred from age at death.
Annie Morrill Smith, Morrill Kindred in America, Volume 2 (New York: Grafton Press, 1931), 23.
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
NEHGS Register, 58: 47.
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
NEHGS Register, 58: 122.
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
Ann Lisa Pearson, Morrill/Morrell Families Association Newsletter, 2(1): 13.
Ann Lisa Pearson, Morrill/Morrell Families Association Newsletter, 2(1): 13.
New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).
Date and place derived from Revolutionary War Pension Application.
[Anonymous], Relocation of Cemeteries [in Hill NH] (Concord NH: Typewritten manuscript at the New Hampshire Historical Society, 1945).
Date derived from Revolutionary War Pension Application.
Date derived from age given on Revolutionary War Pension Application.